[Nagano, Obuse] Experience hand-drawn dyeing at the Zashiki Warashi Village workshop and create T-shirts and other items! You can take your creation home on the day!

With this plan, anyone can casually experience hand-drawn dyeing. Please bring along any plain T-shirts, aprons, eco-bags, etc. that you would like to draw. If you do not have any, we will prepare them for you. (Drawstring bag) You are free to choose the picture you would like to draw. We have examples in the store, but of course you can bring your own image. You can take the completed work home on the day. In the Zashiki Warashi no Iru Sato workshop, we display and sell works by the owner, who has been making pottery for about 30 years, as well as works by fellow kilns. There are many things that you won't find anywhere else. We have a wood-fired kiln (anagama) in Higashiyama, Nakano City, next to Obuse, and we fire it twice a year (June and December). You can freely visit the kiln while it is firing.

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